Ladies Day the highlight of two-day meeting at Sligo Races next week
Marietta Doran the resident fashion presenter on TV3’s Ireland AM, will judge this years Ladies Day at Sligo Races on Thursday, August 9th, day two of the Sligo Races Summer Festival. The festival kicks off on Wednesday August 8, and by popular demand a joint Peaky Blinder & Farmers…
Donegal jockey crowned champion apprentice
19-year-old Oisin Orr from Rathmullen in Donegal was crowned champion apprentice jockey for the 2017 flat season yesterday. The apprentice title went right down to the final meeting of the season at Naas and Orr was confirmed champion with 20 winners, just a single win ahead of his chief rival,…
Racing in Roscommon today
It’s Family Day at Roscommon today and looking ahead to the action is Dave Keena…
Ruby Walsh among the attractions at Ladies Day in Sligo
It’s ladies day today at the Sligo Races as the second day of the two-day August meeting is dominated by hurdle races with The BoyleSports Handicap Hurdle taking centre stage at 7.40pm this evening. Ruby Walsh will be among the jockeys in action, Dave Keena looks ahead…
Ladies Day at Sligo Races on Thursday
The second day of the Sligo August meeting is dominated by hurdle races with The BoyleSports Handicap Hurdle taking centre stage at twenty-to-eight this evening. Recent Galway winner Ben Button represents the in-form Willie Mullins/Ruby Walsh alliance. The going is soft at the track with the first race off at…
Racing in Roscommon on Monday
John Oxx has won Monday’s feature at Roscommon, the €45,000 Listed Lenebane Stakes (8.25), five times since 2008 and he goes in search of more glory with Flying Fairies who will be ridden by Gary Carroll. The favourite for the race is the Aidan O’Brien-trained Exemplar who was last seen…
Success for Sligo pair in Kilbeggan
Strandhill trainer Mark McNiff and jockey Derek Fox were celebrating again on Monday evening at Kilbeggan as Cairnshill won the Greville Arms Hotel Mullingar Handicap Hurdle. McNiff says the wet ground suited helped…